Release 173, Delete 65,000

# Release 173, Delete 65,000

The DOJ released 173 documents on March 5, 2026. FBI interview memos. A complete 2006 case file. Prosecution memoranda from SDNY. Handwritten pages that appear to be from minors.

They released them because they had to. The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed Attorney General Pam Bondi after NPR reported on February 24 that the DOJ had "incorrectly coded" files related to allegations that Trump sexually abused a minor — and timed the omission to coincide with the State of the Union address.

So the DOJ complied. Released 173 pages to look cooperative.

Then, under the fog of the Iran war that started March 1, they quietly deleted approximately 65,000 files from justice.gov/epstein.

Release a little. Delete a lot.

We Have Them

DugganUSA indexed 398,560 DOJ Epstein documents before the deletions began. Every EFTA number. Every dataset. Full-text searchable. The March 5 release is being OCR'd through Google Vision right now — scanned FBI memos converted to searchable text in real time.

We also have:

- 12,056 PDFs from archive.org — court records, FOIA responses from FBI, CBP, Bureau of Prisons, and Florida agencies

- 2 million ICIJ offshore entities cross-referenced against Epstein associates

- CARVER-scored threat assessments on 50 named targets

- 42,000 House Oversight images being processed through AI face detection

The government decides what to release, what to redact, and what to delete.

Our job is to make sure what they released stays released.

What's in the March 5 Drop

The 173 documents include:

**FBI Interview Memos**: Descriptions of multiple 2019 interviews the FBI conducted with a woman who alleged she was assaulted by Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump when she was between 13 and 15 years old. She told investigators that Epstein introduced her to Trump and described specific acts of assault.

**Complete 2006 Case File**: The full investigative file from the original Epstein/Maxwell investigation — the one that led to the non-prosecution agreement that Alexander Acosta signed and later called "the best deal they could get."

**SDNY Prosecution Memoranda**: Internal DOJ documents from the Southern District of New York's case against Epstein and Maxwell.

**Handwritten Evidence**: Pages that appear to contain handwriting from minors — journals, poems, notes. The kind of physical evidence that makes the abstract concrete.

These were "incorrectly coded." For twenty years.

The Math

The DOJ has now released roughly 3 million pages under the Epstein Files Transparency Act. But the pattern is clear:

- January 25, 2026: Initial release. Massive dump designed to overwhelm.

- February 24, 2026: NPR discovers "incorrectly coded" files about Trump were withheld. Same day as State of the Union.

- March 1, 2026: Iran war begins.

- March 5, 2026: DOJ releases 173 pages to satisfy the subpoena.

- March 5-7, 2026: 65,000+ files quietly removed from justice.gov during wartime fog.

The release is the distraction. The deletion is the operation.

Why This Matters

Every document the DOJ deletes from justice.gov still exists in our index. Every EFTA number is verifiable. Every search result links back to the government's own data.

We built this for exactly this moment. Not because we predicted it — because we knew the pattern. Governments release under pressure. Then they retract when attention shifts. The only defense is a mirror they can't take down.

398,560 documents. Free. No login. No paywall to search.

**epstein.dugganusa.com**

The government's own narrative, made unscrubable, indicts the government.

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